pickleglitch

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by pickleglitch 6d ago
Technically, no. Colloquially, maybe.
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by pickleglitch 27d ago
One could make the argument that it has, via political changes. DOGE, for instance, who's cuts have been linked to hundreds of thousands of deaths, would have been very unlikely without social media.
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by pickleglitch 27d ago
I feel like the media is anticipating a new Democrat controlled congress, and so they are starting to bang on the national debt panic drum in preparation. Not that the debt isn't a problem, and $40T is certainly a milestone, but if the
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by pickleglitch 29d ago
> No one will care because it's just another addition to the mountain of slop, and the guy bagging your groceries can do it. In Western culture we tend to define ourselves based on our job, aka our economic output. That person is a
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by pickleglitch 1mo ago
I'm taking up drawing again. Whenever I find myself doomscrolling I pick up my sketchbook. I'm also trying to read more books. Every time I'm about to open a social media app, I try to open my ebook app instead. But years of
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by pickleglitch 1mo ago
I mean, they've been saying they were going to do this. They didn't even try to hide it. Independent journalists have been covering it for a year or more.
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by pickleglitch 1mo ago
I'm sure it is a small minority who think that way. It's impossible to tell for sure, but my gut tells me the number is still larger than we might want to believe.
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by pickleglitch 1mo ago
>Some categories everyone accepts shouldn't be working: children, students, retirees, new parents, the sick, and the disabled. There are plenty of people who do not accept this. We had to outlaw child labor because lots of people th
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by pickleglitch 1mo ago
Yesterday they were expecting the report to show 80k+ jobs added. So, this is much, much worse than expected. The market is up because they expect this will keep the fed from raising interest rates, and also because the market is increasing
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by pickleglitch 1mo ago
Jeff Bezos will be happy to let you rent one from him. He's said this is how he envisions the future of personal computing. You will own nothing, and so on.
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by pickleglitch 1mo ago
This is so colossally stupid, even by MAGA standards. We're literally spending billions to make things worse, because apparently any form of renewable energy makes the frogs gay or some stupid shit.
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by pickleglitch 1mo ago
It doesn't help that we've been drowning in propaganda that says "capitalism = freedom" and "socialism = oppression" since forever.
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by pickleglitch 1mo ago
I don't have to worry about this because almost no one ever reads anything I write. Even if they did, I don't give a shit.
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by pickleglitch 1mo ago
I'm convinced most Americans have no idea what socialism means, or even what capitalism means.
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by pickleglitch 1mo ago
Zuckerberg should thrown in prison.
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by pickleglitch 2mo ago
Oh look, a new note taking app. Must be Wednesday.
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by pickleglitch 2mo ago
https://bookwyrm.social/ is exactly that. It's often sluggish, and not the best UX, but it's usable. I'm hoping it continues to improve.
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by pickleglitch 2mo ago
What are you even talking about? People have been trying to "solve" aging since forever. You are mad that not every single person is dedicated to this one issue? If it's so bloody easy, why don't you just solve it your d
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by pickleglitch 2mo ago
If the past decade has taught me anything, it's that today's satire is tomorrow's reality.
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by pickleglitch 2mo ago
100% yes, it has. I used to post under my real name, but when Trump was re-elected I deleted all my old social media accounts and created this pseudonym. Even still, I don't say everything I want to say because if the government wants
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by pickleglitch 2mo ago
"Orion Everywhere You Are!" Unless you are on on Android, I guess.
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by pickleglitch 2mo ago
6 days and 3 posts? What did you expect to get out of that? Some people spend years building an audience. I don't know why you would think you can do it in 6 days with barely any effort.
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by pickleglitch 2mo ago
The inclusion of DOGE's bogus "savings" data renders this whole thing suspect to me.
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by pickleglitch 2mo ago
Good.
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by pickleglitch 2mo ago
Oh, I see. So, it's not another forever war. It's just the second of an unlimited number of short, 2-month wars. Got it.
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by pickleglitch 2mo ago
What gives you the idea that they want to distribute the gains from AI equitably?
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by pickleglitch 2mo ago
I would suggest you begin by researching the actual history of luddites.
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by pickleglitch 2mo ago
I didn't even finish the article because this sort of thing pisses me off too much.
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by pickleglitch 2mo ago
I hope they lose and it bankrupts them. I'd like to see Zuckerberg thrown in prison. However, I would like to know what happens that $1.4T? Like, do the states that sued just add it to a slush fund? How would it be used to help mitigat
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by pickleglitch 3mo ago
This is only part of the picture. Part of the reason houses are so much larger today is cultural, but I would argue a larger part is that economies of scale scale make it more profitable to build larger houses, so that's what developer

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